The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 113
The palace was finished by next day, and the genie carried him there and showed him all his orders faithfully carried out, even to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan's.
Who acts: genie, orders, horse · What happens: finish, carry, show, carry out, order · To what, where: palace, horse
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genie, orders, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux:pass |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 genie | det |
| 11 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 carried | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 showed | cc |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | iobj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 orders | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 orders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 21 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 showed | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 carried | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laying | punct |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 laying | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 laying | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 laying | det |
| 28 | laying | laying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 carpet | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 carpet | det |
| 31 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carpet | compound |
| 32 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laying | nmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 palace | case |
| 34 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 palace | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Aladdin | case |
| 36 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carpet | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Sultan | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Sultan | det |
| 39 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 palace | nmod |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Sultan | case |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the palace | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the genie | horse | there | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | show | past | the genie not said here | horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | carry out | past | horse's orders | to the laying of a velvet carpet from Aladdin's palace to the Sultan; faithfully property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | order | horse | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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